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NBA season tips off tonight · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: A Tuesday evening and afternoon. That's about to be Tuesday evening.
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  Speaker 1: So we're glad to have you with us, Craig Way
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  Speaker 1: alongside the producer Cameron Parker. We have not broached the
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  Speaker 1: subject yet. We need to do it right now. Opening
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  Speaker 1: night in the NBA esh opening night in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: Nick Celtics just ended Tea Wolves Lakers opening Night tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You are the resident NBA honk in this building. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I'm a huge Dallas Mavericks fan. But and I
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  Speaker 1: do have the NBA League Pass at home. I've had
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  Speaker 1: that the first time. I've had it for twenty six
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  Speaker 1: I've had it longer than I've had NFL Sunday ticket
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  Speaker 1: because the NFL Sunday ticket went the YouTube bridles we
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  Speaker 1: know last year, so that was my exit.
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  Speaker 2: Out of that.
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  Speaker 1: But I've had the NBA League Pass package since nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight. I had the NHL Center Ice package a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I thought, I'm watching maybe three
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  Speaker 1: games a year.
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  Speaker 2: Out of that. My schedule is only allow me to.
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  Speaker 1: Make it catch three or four games or otherwise I'll
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  Speaker 1: come home late at night after calling the game. Folks
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  Speaker 1: have asked me, what do you do when you get
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  Speaker 1: off the air and you've called a basketball game? Say
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  Speaker 1: it home, a Texas men's or women's game, and let's
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  Speaker 1: just say, for example, a men's game that started like
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  Speaker 1: at eight o'clock for television, a big Monday game or
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  Speaker 1: some other game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what do you do? Do you go? You fall
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  Speaker 2: straight into bed?
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of times I can't do it because
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  Speaker 1: you're still kind of revved up from calling the game,
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  Speaker 1: the the adrenaline and all of that. So I'll get home.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm home. It's after eleven, eleven fifteen or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Most everybody's you know whatever, Linda's headed off to bed.
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  Speaker 1: The dog might sit up with me. Might if she's
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  Speaker 1: feeling otherwise. She'll go in there, you know, to go
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  Speaker 1: to bed when Linda does, and I'll just kind of
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  Speaker 1: kind of sink into a chair and I'll turn on.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be a late night NBA game on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, here it is eleven forty seven. I
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  Speaker 1: should be in bed. Both the Kings and the Timberwolves,
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  Speaker 1: or midway through the third quarter or.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that. It'll be something. And it was like
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  Speaker 2: that way for a while. For hockey.
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  Speaker 1: The other Kings Los Angeles came where it might be
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  Speaker 1: maple Leafs at Canucks or something. I finally said, this
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  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Go to bed, Go to bed. So I
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  Speaker 1: got rid of the hockey package. I do have the
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  Speaker 1: baseball package, so I can watch the Dodgers, obviously, and
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  Speaker 1: I probably watched close to one hundred when I watched
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  Speaker 1: close to one hundred Dodger games a year during the season.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm such a big fan and all that
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  Speaker 1: is part of that built out into that. But it
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  Speaker 1: is Opening Night in the NBA, So you're the resident
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  Speaker 1: NBA honk, So are you? Are you fired up for it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is it both on TNT header Nick Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got t Wolves and like Nick Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: what that rematch of the Eastern Conference Finals, believe so yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And then you got t Wolves Lakers and they're fascination
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers despite the fact that the Lakers probably.
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  Speaker 2: Are not going to be good this year. Right, So
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  Speaker 2: it was Celtics Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Live
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  Speaker 2: Celtics Pacers. That's right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So but you got Nick Celtics tonight.
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  Speaker 1: What's it called T D Garden. What's it called, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah Garden. Yeah. And then and then t Wolves, Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers are despite adding Bronnie James. Be that
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  Speaker 1: as it may, they're not expected to be very good,
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  Speaker 1: are they?
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  Speaker 2: Well, depending on if you're on Twitter and you follow
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  Speaker 2: the lebron James stand accounts, this is the greatest team
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  Speaker 2: of all time and Bronnie James is going to be
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, two thousand and ten, Dwayne Wade apparently
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  Speaker 2: that's not the case. Correct of the year. This is, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I will And then it sounds like a large amount
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  Speaker 2: of betters are betting on Bronnie James to win Rookie
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  Speaker 2: of the Year in the NBA. Really, which is how
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas stays Las Vegas because you have idiots like
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  Speaker 2: that or who are betting on Bronnie James to win
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  Speaker 2: the If you put him in the G League for
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  Speaker 2: every game, he would not even win come close to
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  Speaker 2: being the G League MVP. No, no disrespect to Bronnie James.
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  Speaker 2: That's just he's just not an NBA caliber player yet,
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  Speaker 2: even though he's on an NBA team. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a different discussion for that. So Lakers. I think
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  Speaker 2: there'll be another playing team, Craig. You know, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what JJ Reddick does. A lot of hope with him
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  Speaker 2: and his offensive prowess. But the good chance we're in
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  Speaker 2: December and we've already we're already reading articles about his
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  Speaker 2: JJ Reddick on the hot seat, who could fill in
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  Speaker 2: for you know, stuff like that. So we'll see with
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  Speaker 2: the Timberwolves, you know, and the two teams who play
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  Speaker 2: the night not playing each other. But you have the
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  Speaker 2: next Celtics and then the t Wolves. Lakers remembered the
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  Speaker 2: t Wolves in the Knicks a month ago made a
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  Speaker 2: huge trade sending Julius Randall to New York, or excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: Julius Randall and Dante Chi Vincenzo to Minnesota. Minnesota sends
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  Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Towns to New York. So we'll see how
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  Speaker 2: both these teams look. I think the t Wolves are
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  Speaker 2: going to be a great team to start. I think
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards will be on a mission. I like him
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  Speaker 2: a lot for MVP this year, alongside SGA and Luka
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  Speaker 2: Doncics perhaps, so I think it'll be fun to watch tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We already know what the Celtics are. I think they
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  Speaker 2: are by far the team to beat, not just the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference, but in the league, you know, coming off
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  Speaker 2: as defending champions, and honestly, with the whole Team USA thing,
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  Speaker 2: with Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown being left off the team,
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  Speaker 2: that's the worst thing that could happen to the league, Craig,
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  Speaker 2: because you have Jaylen Brown, who already won finals MVP,
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  Speaker 2: had his best season, yet gets left off the team.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand why he did not fit with that
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  Speaker 2: team whatsoever. It was not a Jaalen Brown thing. It
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  Speaker 2: was just a chemistry thing already with Katie and Lebron
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  Speaker 2: and Steph and so many guys who were on ball
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  Speaker 2: that pissed off Jayleen Brown. And you know, Rightfley, so
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  Speaker 2: for Jalen Brown, so he's gonna come in this season,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ready to prove everybody wrong. And then Jason
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  Speaker 2: Tatum did not play well at all at Team USA
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  Speaker 2: in the summer, and you know, maybe he was just
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  Speaker 2: tired and just celebrating the ring, and I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he's fitting well with that team as well. So those
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  Speaker 2: two guys, I think they have something more to prove
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  Speaker 2: now this season. The team comes back. Christops will be back,
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  Speaker 2: probably in December, but you know, they were able to
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  Speaker 2: really make that playoff run without him. So I think
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  Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics is going to be the best team
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  Speaker 2: in the record the season this year. I think they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna come out firing, but it will be fun to
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  Speaker 2: see how the next the new look Knicks look and
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  Speaker 2: how the new look Timberwolves look Tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Which of these games that is just two games tonight
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow is the main thrust and a few more on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Which of these games Tomorrow night most intrigues you for
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  Speaker 1: a season opener, an eighty two game schedule.
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  Speaker 2: See just a quick look at the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to guess who we're gonna say, Bucks, Sixers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I maybe, but we're Georges and Joel Embiid are
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  Speaker 2: not playing Opening night at home? You're at home. I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing it's probably going to be on ESPN. Oh, it
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  Speaker 2: is it is. And guess what. Two of the three
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  Speaker 2: biggest players in the game aren't playing. This is why
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  Speaker 2: nobody pays attention to the NBA and the regular season, Craig,
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  Speaker 2: Two of the three superstars aren't playing. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: understand you want to keep your guys healthy, but that's
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  Speaker 2: still a problem needs to be fixed. I think the
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  Speaker 2: game I think I'm most interested in.
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  Speaker 1: Horn's Rockets is Chicago New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see how Lonzo Ball looks. You know,
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  Speaker 2: for us NERD NBA fans, you know, we've kind of
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  Speaker 2: gotten obsessed with Lonzo Ball, and you know he's had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of knee surgeries and you know, he's worked
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  Speaker 2: his way back to be able to play this season,
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  Speaker 2: so we hope he's okay. In for New Orleans, the
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  Speaker 2: team that features Zion Williamson, CJ McCollum, Brandon Ingram, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a year ago playoff team and they're going to go
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  Speaker 2: in this season with a lot of you know, rumors circulating.
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  Speaker 2: Is Ingram on the trade block? What's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: with Zion? They could be a team that may end
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  Speaker 2: up being sellers at the trade deadline. We could see
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  Speaker 2: Ingram on the Lakers or the Warriors or whoever. So
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  Speaker 2: want to see how they look. I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: the game that I'm most interested in. Phoenix Clippers should
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  Speaker 2: be interesting as well. You know, Katie and the Sun's back.
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  Speaker 2: The Clippers with is Kawai no ready for the opener. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Hawhi has played an opener since twenty eighteen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, so goodly back. It's gonna be a long season.
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  Speaker 2: But again, the NBA does not start until it's all start.
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  Speaker 1: See, I can tell you tomorrow night, Tomorrow night, after
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  Speaker 1: after long wor and weekly we coach start tomorrow when
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  Speaker 1: we do the show take, we're going to go home and.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Lyndon and I'll have dinner and then they
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  Speaker 2: watch something or that.
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  Speaker 1: But as the evening grows later that Phoenix Clippers has
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  Speaker 1: some interest for me, and then even I might peek
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  Speaker 1: in on Warriors and Trailblazers only because it can having
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  Speaker 1: the the NBA package, it's a later night thing. For
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  Speaker 1: those who are wondering about the Spurs and the Mavericks. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they each open their seasons on Thursday against each other.
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  Speaker 1: Nice they play in Dallas and that's a TNT game
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. You know, there's a lot of hubbub in
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  Speaker 1: the Metroplex because of the Mavericks new TV package.
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  Speaker 2: And what a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of folks in the Dallas for or therea are
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  Speaker 1: hoping is that the Rangers and the Stars take good
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  Speaker 1: notice of this. Now all three have exited from what
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  Speaker 1: was Ballet Sports Southwest. By the way, it's not Ballet
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  Speaker 1: Sports anymore. It's now run by fan Duel. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: run by Diamond Sports, which is owned ultimately by Sinclair Broadcasting,
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  Speaker 1: but the name on it won't be bally going for
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it already changed automatically on my app.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed has already changed to Fan Duel on the
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  Speaker 2: app ready. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't think we're calling it that on the
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  Speaker 1: High School Show for obvious reasons, but anyway, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's that they're hoping that that I think fans are
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  Speaker 1: hoping that those other pro sports franchise take note of
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  Speaker 1: what the Mavericks said. You hear what the Mavericks did
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  Speaker 1: every single one of their games that aren't on network TV,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to play quite a bit on that
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  Speaker 1: work TV. But the times they don't out of eighty
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  Speaker 1: two games probably seventy i'd say, if not more, or
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  Speaker 1: on free over the air television in Dallas for worth,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. They're either most of them are on a
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  Speaker 1: station that would be like saying KBVO down here or
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  Speaker 1: the CW down here. It's on channel twenty nine, which
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  Speaker 1: is owned by w FAA. It's KFAAA KFAA.
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  Speaker 2: And then that big cell tower you're driving in. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: They most of the games the over the year, games
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  Speaker 1: that are not on network TV will be on that signal.
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  Speaker 1: And then they've got like fifteen games that are on
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  Speaker 1: just the ABC affiliate Channel eight. There's like fifteen games
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  Speaker 1: on that, and then the other like fifty five or
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  Speaker 1: however many maybe it's fifty or whatever, or on the channel.
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  Speaker 1: Every single game that isn't on picked up by like
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  Speaker 1: TNT like Thursday Nights Opener or some of the others,
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  Speaker 1: every single one is on free over the air television.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it should be creczy. Yeah, yeah, twenty four. I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you. I'm with you as a and as a
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  Speaker 2: NBA League Pass guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I'll get to see the Mavericks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously since they're a out of town team, because this
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  Speaker 1: is a Spurs market after all, and I like the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs as well and obviously keep up with them also.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we've got football notes to get to and
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  Speaker 1: more conversation with long warm players when we continue on
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